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∆sop's Fables

1912 · 67929 — Deluxe Edition Signed by Arthur Rackham RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. AESOP. CHESTERTON G.K. contributor. VERNON JONES V.S. translator. ∆sop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones. With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann 1912. Limited to 1450 numbered copies signed by the artist. This being number 591. Large quarto. xxix 1 blank 223 1 pp. Thirteen color plates including frontispiece mounted on heavy brown paper with descriptive tissue guards and fifty-three drawings in black and white nineteen full-page. Original white buckram pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt others uncut. Occasional browning from plate mounts as usual. Spine sunned front board with slight soiling. Very good. Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39. Riall p. 111. HBS 67929. $1750 William Heinemann hardcover books